Size-induced d band center upshift of copper for efficient nitrate reduction to ammonia

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Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction (NO3RR) technique has emerged as a hotspot in NH3 production, for its practicability, and a series of advanced electrocatalysts with high activity and robust stability needed to be constructed in today's era. In this work, size-tunable Cu nanoparticles on porous nitrogen-doped hexagonal carbon nanorods (CuNHC) were reasonably designed and served for catalyzing NO3RR in neutral media. Especially, Cu30%@NHC demonstrated a remarkable electroactivity for NH3 production as it showed a suitable grain size with massive catalytic centers and favorable d band structure with faster *NO3--to-*NO2- catalytic dynamics. As expected, Cu30%@NHC (3628.28 µg h-1 mgcat.-1) had a much higher NH3 yield than those for Cu20%@NHC (1268.42 µg h-1 mgcat.-1) and Cu40%@NHC (725.03 µg h-1 mgcat.-1). And those collected NH3 products indeed derived from NO3RR process revealed by 15N isotope-labeling and systemic control tests. Moreover, Cu30%@NHC was also durable for NO3RR bulk electrolysis with minor loss in activity. This work offered an effective modifying tactics to boost NO3RR catalysis and could guide the design of other advanced electrocatalysts via size-induced surface engineering.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:658

Enthalten in:

Journal of colloid and interface science - 658(2024) vom: 15. Jan., Seite 934-942

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Jincheng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chaofan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xu [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Yanjiao [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Mengjie [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Zhanning [VerfasserIn]
Ge, Ruixiang [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Min [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Jian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

D band structure
Journal Article
N-doped hexagonal carbon nanorod
NH(3) electrosynthesis
Size-tunable Cu

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Date Revised 10.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcis.2023.12.129

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NLM366482645